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  • Lost Work by George Ritchey Located!

    From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 20 10:48:29 2021
    Well, at least free download on the Internet is a problem, no doubt it's in a few
    libraries.

    Basically, if your search leads you to

    https://archive.org/details/onconstruction00draprich/

    you will find that while you can see a copy of Henry Draper's work there, the famous work On the Modern Reflecting Telescope and the Making and Testing
    of Optical Mirrors by George W. Ritchey, supposed to be bound with it, is not there.

    And, at least in Canada, while it may be on Google Books, it isn't there for full view.

    But it turns out that this work _is_ present on the Internet Archive, albeit in a less convenient form.

    It was serialized in the Scientific American Supplement in December 1904 and January 1905:

    https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1904-12-24_58_1512/
    https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1904-12-31_58_1513/
    https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1905-01-07_59_1514/
    https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1905-01-14_59_1515/
    https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1905-01-21_59_1516/

    John Savard https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1905-01-28_59_1517/

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Thu Oct 21 16:37:28 2021
    On Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at 13:48:31 UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
    Well, at least free download on the Internet is a problem, no doubt it's in a few
    libraries.

    Basically, if your search leads you to

    https://archive.org/details/onconstruction00draprich/

    you will find that while you can see a copy of Henry Draper's work there, the famous work On the Modern Reflecting Telescope and the Making and Testing
    of Optical Mirrors by George W. Ritchey, supposed to be bound with it, is not there.

    And, at least in Canada, while it may be on Google Books, it isn't there for full view.

    But it turns out that this work _is_ present on the Internet Archive, albeit in
    a less convenient form.

    It was serialized in the Scientific American Supplement in December 1904 and January 1905:

    https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1904-12-24_58_1512/
    https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1904-12-31_58_1513/
    https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1905-01-07_59_1514/
    https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1905-01-14_59_1515/
    https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1905-01-21_59_1516/

    John Savard https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american-supplement_1905-01-28_59_1517/

    Thanks, I saw no copies of this on a few sites so you just need to run the downloaded .pdf through a laser printer for a hard copy.
    I still like reading print off paper, but if Amazon were still making their Kindle DX (magazine page size black and white display) I'd have
    gotten one for this kind of thing.

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to RichA on Fri Oct 22 08:33:54 2021
    On Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 5:37:30 PM UTC-6, RichA wrote:
    you just need to run the downloaded .pdf through a laser printer for a hard copy.

    In this particular case, that might not work so well. Scientific American in 1909
    was a broadsheet - printed a lot like a newspaper. So there's a lot of print on each
    single page.

    John Savard

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